Wine lovers, take note: the secret to a superior vintage lies in the barrel. Radoux combines tradition with innovation to produce the best oak casks in the business. Join us as we explore the time-honored process that goes into making the perfect barrel.
Just as great wine is a product of the vineyard, exceptional wine barrels start in the forest. Continuing a tradition that has been in practice for two millennia, the artisans atrely on both experience and technology to select oak trees that will be handcrafted into some of the world’s finest wine casks.
Now one of the globe’s preeminent barrel makers, Radoux in 1998 became the first in the category to trade on the Paris Stock Exchange. A decade later it launched Oakscan, technology that instantly measures the level of polyphenols—which have a crucial impact on wine’s tannic structure and flavor—contained in barrel staves . The company was acquired by industry leader François Frères Cooperage in 2012.
Although some Radoux casks are made in California’s Central Valley with American oak, the majority come from Jonzac, in the heart of the Cognac region, from old-growth oak harvested in the center of the country. In the same way that fine wine is still largely made by hand, barrel-making is a manual process, performed by artisans with an average of 20 to 30 years of experience.
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